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power outages here in louisiana, about 680,000. we have three-quarters of a million customers without power. some may be without power for five or six days. the winds have died down. getting gusts of 40, 45 miles per hour and the water is up there because the wind is blowing on shore, rotating oornd the center which is a hundred miles northwest of new orleans. the silver lining now, as the rain ends here it moves up into where we have been talking about for months now, the serious drought cutting into the corn crop. heavy rains in arkansas, st. louis and along the i-70 corridor for labor day weekend. a silver lining but a lot of issues today. basically everything is still shut here in louisiana as far as schools and state offices. chuck, back to you. >> mike seidel in louisiana. that's the one silver lining. no people in arkansas have been looking for rain. hopefully this provides a little bit. back in tampa, mitt romney may be preparing to discuss his faith as a way to give voters a window into his soul. his running mate said whil
power outages here in louisiana, about 680,000. we have three-quarters of a million customers without power. some may be without power for five or six days. the winds have died down. getting gusts of 40, 45 miles per hour and the water is up there because the wind is blowing on shore, rotating oornd the center which is a hundred miles northwest of new orleans. the silver lining now, as the rain ends here it moves up into where we have been talking about for months now, the serious drought...
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we are live in louisiana. good morning from tampa, florida, and the last day of the republican national convention, and it is friday august 31st, 2012, and this is the "daily rundown" "aand i'm chuck todd. let's get to the first reads of the day. by all accounts, this convention would be judged by one speech. he needed to better introduce himself to the american public, and close the empathy gap and get closer to american voters to get more comfortable with him as president and more meat on the policy bone, and none of the goals was more important than giving america a chance to get to know him. and romney did that last night showing a personal side he just has not shown on the campaign trail. he teared up talking about his parents' 64-year marriage. >> every day, dad gave mom a rose which he put on her bedside table and that is how she found out what happened on the day my father died, she went looking for him, because that morning, there was no rose. my mom and dad were true partners. a life lesson that shap
we are live in louisiana. good morning from tampa, florida, and the last day of the republican national convention, and it is friday august 31st, 2012, and this is the "daily rundown" "aand i'm chuck todd. let's get to the first reads of the day. by all accounts, this convention would be judged by one speech. he needed to better introduce himself to the american public, and close the empathy gap and get closer to american voters to get more comfortable with him as president and...
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it's not just louisiana. alabama and mississippi are getting hit hard, as well. the weather channel's mike seidel is in orange beach, alabama. mike, this storm is going to sit here for a while, isn't it? >> it's a very slow-mover, chuck, and that is the problem. it's a category 1, but still wind gusts over 80 miles per hour and the rain is unrelent g unrelenting. 9 inches at the airport in new orleans out here, on the mobile gulf shores area, close to 5 inches of rain. this is orange beach, we're just off to the east of gulf shores. and high tide's a few hours away but the water is way past where it should be at high tide. this is a nice, long beach. we're losing beach to the erosion from the water. also the wind has blown a lot of sand and you can see all the seaweed now. buildings here are fine, power on. let me show the radar, it's a slow-moving isaac. still an 80-mile-an-hour hurricane. now that the center has made a second landfall and the entire center is over land, although it's kind of marshy down there, slowly will wind down in the wind perspective, but,
it's not just louisiana. alabama and mississippi are getting hit hard, as well. the weather channel's mike seidel is in orange beach, alabama. mike, this storm is going to sit here for a while, isn't it? >> it's a very slow-mover, chuck, and that is the problem. it's a category 1, but still wind gusts over 80 miles per hour and the rain is unrelent g unrelenting. 9 inches at the airport in new orleans out here, on the mobile gulf shores area, close to 5 inches of rain. this is orange...
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there are other signs of isaac here in tampa, louisiana delegation's empty chairs were a symbolic reminder. their state's republican star, a scheduled time proo ed prime ti governor bobby jindal will be a tampa no show. one thing about these late conventions, though, it is more dangerous for the other candidate to stay quiet and allow the opponent to bask in free media. this morning, as you see the president, he's not sitting on the sidelines. he is kicking off a college tour, two-day swing through colleges in battleground state that is will take him to ames, iowa, colorado and charlottesville. while our nbc news wall street journal poll found the president maintains a substantial lead among voters 18 to 34, the issue that the president has is they're not as enthusiastic as they were four years ago. when asked how interested they are in this collection, 52% of young voters called themselves a nine or ten when it comes to interest. that number was 62% four years ago. expect the president to spend the next couple of weeks focusing on young voters during this stretch as colleges open up and s
there are other signs of isaac here in tampa, louisiana delegation's empty chairs were a symbolic reminder. their state's republican star, a scheduled time proo ed prime ti governor bobby jindal will be a tampa no show. one thing about these late conventions, though, it is more dangerous for the other candidate to stay quiet and allow the opponent to bask in free media. this morning, as you see the president, he's not sitting on the sidelines. he is kicking off a college tour, two-day swing...
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the hit we could take would be a storm surge in the northern gulf from louisiana on into florida. it could be far worse than any 1,000 without power. back to you. >> jim cantore, the best in the business, glad you are on our team for this. >>> as we discussed earlier, republicans are dealing with a second storm, political fallout from congressman todd akin's controversial comments. it is not helping mitt romney appeal to women voters. the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows 52% of voters think president obama is better at handling women's issues. joining me now, republican oklahoma governor mary fallon. she's 1 of only 6 women governors serving right now. she joins me. good morning to you. >> good morning, chuck. >> i want to start -- i hear this from republicans a lot but there are a lot more republican women in state-wide office these days and you see democrat women when you look, particularly at governorships. >> that's right. >> why hasn't that translated to convincing suburban women -- we dissect electorate. why hasn't that been enough for republicans to sort of
the hit we could take would be a storm surge in the northern gulf from louisiana on into florida. it could be far worse than any 1,000 without power. back to you. >> jim cantore, the best in the business, glad you are on our team for this. >>> as we discussed earlier, republicans are dealing with a second storm, political fallout from congressman todd akin's controversial comments. it is not helping mitt romney appeal to women voters. the latest nbc news/"wall street...
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